Vitaly Onishenko

Vitaly Onishenko was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Ukrainian Air Force during the March 2014 Crimean Crisis. On 9 March 2014, he gave an interview to Vice News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky, telling him about an attack by two trucks of Russian Army troops on his base in Crimea after he refused to let them take it over. They rammed the gates and climbed the walls, and some troops blocked out the back side of the base with special equipment. The Russians beat up several journalists there as well.